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Gateway Bridge
Description
The bridge received the 2005 Major Span Award (one or more spans greater than or equal to 400 ft.) from the National Steel Bridge Alliance (a division of the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)).Facts
- Overview
- Steel through arch bridge over Cumberland River on Gateway Blvd. in downtown Nashville
- Location
- Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 2004
- Builder
- - Bell & Associates of Kansas City, Missouri
- Design
- Steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 545.0 ft.
Total length: 1,600.0 ft.
- Also called
- Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.16066, -86.76952 (decimal degrees)
36°09'38" N, 86°46'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/520730/4001792 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Nashville West
- Inventory number
- BH 32480 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 6, 2016: New photos from Ben Tate
- March 1, 2014: New photo from Jack Schmidt
- April 17, 2008: New photos from James McCray
- August 21, 2006: Posted new photos
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
© Copyright 2002-17, James Baughn and contributors.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/tn/davidson/gateway/
The Gateway Bridge was awarded the 2005 Prize Bridge award for the Major Span category by the National Steel Bridge Alliance. www.steelbridges.org
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